dismantle
Meaning of dismantle
verb
- take (a machine or structure) to pieces.
the engines were dismantled and the bits piled into a heap
the old regime was dismantled
late 16th century (in the sense ‘destroy the defensive capability of a fortification’): from Old French desmanteler, from des- (expressing reversal) + manteler ‘fortify’ (from Latin mantellum ‘cloak’).
Information about dismantle
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of dismantle is: dismantles.
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Hyphenation of dismantle
dis-man-tle
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- dismantle is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
dismantle synonyms
Meaning level:
Meaning disassemble:
Meaning strip:
Meaning analyse (a text or linguistic or conceptual system) by deconstruction:
Meaning pull or knock down (a building):
Meaning past of fall:
Meaning end the existence of (something) by damaging or attacking it:
Meaning make or become flat or flatter:
Meaning clear (ground) or destroy (buildings, trees, etc.) with a bulldozer:
Meaning demolish or destroy:
dismantle antonyms
Meaning (of people) gather together in one place for a common purpose:
Meaning construct (something) by putting parts or material together:
Translation of dismantle
- German: demontieren
- French: démanteler
- Spanish: desmantelar, desguazar
- Italian: smantellare
Anagrams of dismantle
Words that rhyme with dismantle
Fremantle, Mantle, bemantle, brantle, cantle, emmantle, hantle, immantle, mantle, nantle, outmantle, overmantle, pantle, portmantle, remantle, scantle, tantle, unmantle, Estrogentle, gentle, kentle, overgentle, ungentle, wentle, cuckoopintle, pintle, scintle, skintle, trintle, wintle, tzontle, begruntle, disgruntle, duntle, gruntle, nauntle
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